Multisource Latent Feature Selective Ensemble Modeling Approach for Small-Sample High-Dimensional Process Data in Applications

Several difficult-to-measure production qualities or environment pollution indices of industrial process must be measured using offline laboratory instruments. Soft measurement method is often used to perform online prediction of such parameters. Only small-sample modeling data with high-dimensional input features can be obtained due to the limitations and complex characteristics of the measurement device and process, respectively. Therefore, a new multisource latent feature selective ensemble (SEN) modeling approach is proposed in this study. First, input features are divided into different subgroups according to the characteristics of the modeling data. Second, the extracted multisource latent features evolve from the multi-layered selection algorithms, which are specified by feature reduction ratio, feature contribution ratio and mutual information value orderly for each subgroup. Finally, in order to construct candidate sub-models, an adaptive hyper-parameter selection algorithm based on the multi-step grid search is employed in terms of the reduced features. Sequentially, the optimized ensemble submodels with their weighting strategies are adaptively determined to build the final SEN model. The proposed method is verified by using benchmark near-infrared data, high dimensional mechanical frequency spectrum data and industrial dioxin emission concentration data.